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Re: Coverity scans of MariaDB source

 

Hi!

On Mon Feb 04 2013, at 11:58, Christian Convey wrote:
> Coverity has a deal called Coverity Scan, where they offer free static
> analyses of open-source programs (http://scan.coverity.com/).
> 
> I've used Coverity Prevent at work, and I was pretty happy with the
> analyses it performed.  Is it an intentional choice that MariaDB isn't
> making use of Coverity Scan?
> 
> I'm interested in starting to contribute to MariaDB, and I'm wondering
> if it would be useful to the project for me to pursue this as a first
> task.
> 
> - Christian
> 
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It is not intentional, and it would be great if this is the first task you decide to do. Please run it and tell us what you get from it. The best place would be at Jira (http://mariadb.org/jira/). And happy contributing to MariaDB!

cheers,
-colin

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